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  • Easy Way For Advertisement In WordPress

    Since version 2.5 WordPress introduced the shortcode API, more detail about it in our article „WordPress Shortcode API“. Recently I had a task which is surely common, but with the help of shortcode API and custom fields very easy to solve. I had to include some advertisements (in german: Werbung) into some articles. In each…

  • WordPress Shortcode API

    WordPress 2.5 extended the tagging function and added many little features. Among others the shortcode API for example, where you can add strings to a content in a fast and easy way. This makes the call from other functions in Plugins or theme functions much more easier. The possibilities of shortcodes are immense, many other…

  • How To Improve WordPress Plugins

    With the upcoming WordPress release version 2.7 the menu changes to the vertical. This offers several features to the author which we already mentioned in some other posts. But this time I explicitly address Plugin authors and ask them to make their Plugins more user friendly in terms of usability. I will show only two…

  • List All Users in WordPress

    The possibility in WordPress to display all users is not available in a standard installation. To get a simple list of all users, you can use following function. To display just specific user groups or users, there are many template tags available to do so, go to WordPress-Codex – Author Tags.

  • Publish The Feed Later

    Some of you know this problem already, you publish a post and while you are publishing you notice an error. That’s very annoying, the error is in your feed an published to the whole world. That happened quite often to me, my fellow readers a writing comments so fast, right after publishing, to tell me…

  • Quick Tipps For WordPress Query

    The loop of WordPress is a powerful tool. Most users just use the standard loop. But you can adjust and use loops very good for your requirements. I showed an example in my last post for feeds. I will show some other examples, which are barely used, but often asked by users, in this post.…